Tale of Shree Nabhakraj

Author(s): Merutungacharya, Gunsundarvijay
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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RESULT OF MIS-USE OF DEVDRAVYA
Sinh got four ships filled-up with ivory, left his family there, and proceeded torwards Saurashtra (a place in Gujarat state) for selling those ivory. Sinh survived with his skill, but in a dense place near beach of a river named Saurashtrā - all his four ships broke down to pieces. How can an extreme-sinner get, Liberation? (Extremely intense religious-merit or sin does give its' fruit in the same birth itself.) Ivory stock vanished in water and Sinh died and went to the other world i.e. in next birth after his death - in the 1st Hell as a Hell-dweller. After suffering tremendous tortures and pains there, he came out and (in next birth) became a wicked sarisarp (a type of snake) died and went to the 2nd Hell. After having suffered a lot he became a sinful bird. After death he got birth in the 3rd Hell. Thereafter, became a furious lion, and being keen in violence, he got the 4th Hell. After this, he got re-birth incarnation of drishti-vish (i.e. vicious & poisonous snake who can kill by poison in it's eyes) snake, With various sins-went to the 5th Hell. After end of that birth, his soul got rebirth as a wife of a chándal (i.e. crusifier). In this birth, after committing a lot of sins, his soul reached the 6th Hell. Then, his soul became a big fish in a filthy Sea, after death it went to the 7th Hell. Then, it became tandulio matsya (a type of small fish most of them commit mental sins to a very great extent). Again was thrown in the 7th Hell
ch is similar to an ocean of severe pains, tortures and sufferings. After that became wife of a chándal (i.e.crusifier) and then got the 6th Hell. Thus, his soul, got various re-births - one after another - in 5th-4th-3rd-2nd and 1st Hell respectively. Even thereafter, he roamed and wondered in the great Ocean full of worldly affairs full of pains and sorrows.
Q. : What brought to him such a severe, extreme and tremendous pains and sorrows ?
A. : It is all out of the misuse / destruction of the Devdravya (God's Idol's wealth). A devotee of Shiv-a wealthy man, misappropriated a very small portion of that temple dravya, but as a result he had to take birth as a dog for seven times. (i.e. seven re-births) No! the amount-fund-wealth-asset of the Devdravya should never be, mis-used, mis-appropriated, whether directly or
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